Klein: I’m Voting for Malcolm Smith
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Despite talk to the contrary, Sen. Jeff Klein, D- Bronx, said this morning that he plan to vote for Malcolm Smith to lead the Democratic conference—whether it’s in the majority or the minority.
“I never asked anybody to vote for me for leader. I intend to go back to Albany on Wednesday in the majority and vote for Malcolm Smtih for majority leader,” he said.
And he said he’d do the same in January, if Democrats take the majority.
“I have every intention, and hopefully I’ll have the opportunity to nominate Malcolm Smith for majority leader,” Klein continued. “And I’m looking forward to being the deputy majority leader.”
Klein said the main reason for Wednesday’s meeting of the Democratic conference in Albany on Wednesday is to formulate proposed cuts to the state budget, which are due to Governor Paterson on Friday.
Yet Klein said he’d just as soon see a vote of confidence for Smith as well.
“I hope there is, so we can get the politics behind us and move forward and start to change things,” he said. “If we take the vote and we make Malcolm the majority leader, I think that would be a good thing do to on Wednesday.”
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
